You’re still not answering my question. You’re dancing around the truth. Where are those kids ranked let’s say Wheelersburg coach has them? Carter didn’t play a snap as a junior?, Perkins had an average season at best as a junior. Keyes didn’t start on either side of ball until junior year and barely rushed for 1,000 yds both years and all three still made it to play major college football. It’s the coaching staff, the program, and past history that do it for Ironton.XandOs wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 12:18 pmYes, they were that talented. Keyes, Carter, and Perkins were considered in the top 35 of all Ohio seniors last year regardless of school size. No other school in Ohio had those numbers; and no other D5 school had any in the top 35.RBH23 wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 10:26 am [quote=XandOs post_id=2066160 time=<a href="tel:1684505317">1684505317</a> user_id=17160]
Are they really that talented. It’s not like they are pulling in 5 stars from Florida. They are getting Southern Ohio kids that have 0 offers when they get to Ironton and then leading them to 3 state championship appearances in 4 years. He’s been to more state championship games in last 4 years than burg has in the schools rich football history. Since Ohio has played football. Schools south of
I 70 and east of 23 to play football only a handful have played in championship games and Ironton is far and away the most accomplished. Facts! #HYGT![]()
With that much talent, it’s criminal that Ironton didn’t win the state in D5. Something was significantly wrong for them to not only lose state but to lose convincingly to a team with less talent.
Btw, Burg is still the last team in SEO to win state. Get back to me when Ironton does that again. Might be a long time…
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I’ll bet that 90% of college coaches can’t tell you where Wheelersburg is but I bet they have heard of Ironton. Ironton is rich in football history all the way to the NFL. I had a coach at Ironton tell me way back when. Ironton is the destination in Southern Ohio for recruiting. Majority of college coaches stop here and then get out and head back to the big cities.
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If those kids played at Burg? Burg wins state.
As for Ironton developing them, can take credit for Carter, but the others were guns for hire brought in to help Ironton finally win something (already developed). However, Carter’s exposure and recognition came from going to camps not actually due to playing for Ironton’s varsity team. To your point, he had many offers as a sophomore and hadn’t done much at the high school level to that point. Credit for his development goes to the junior high and pee wee coaches, not as much to Pendleton.
There was a time when Ironton was a big time program but not anymore. They were once a D3 power, now they are just a good D5 school dependent on bringing in lots of transfers to compete. Not the same town or team as “way back when”.
Plus, no one knows where Ironton is on the map. I live in the Cincy area; people here have no clue. Only town they are familiar with is Portsmouth and that’s because the town is listed on the state map when the news talks weather.